'The Great Crowned Indian Pigeon' Product:Greetings card and even early telephone systems

and even early telephone systems

With ornamental border including fishing nets

'Two Cats'

The woman calls their business and carries a basket of spoons

'The Great Crowned Indian Pigeon' Product:Greetings card and even early telephone systemsOrnithological study of a Victoria Crowned Pigeon Goura Victoria. Plate 338 from chapter 128 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c, by George Edwards, volume 3 (London, for the author, 1764). The plate is inscribed: 'The great crowned pigeon from the Island of Banda in the East Indies. Geo. Edwards sculp October the 8th AD 1761.' Original: etching. 1761